As a young boy growing up in the 1960s, John Cartwright had a father who worked for the Great Northern Railway and understood and nurtured his son’s fascination with trains. The father and ...

Minnesota has a long history with the railway. Names like James J. Hill are famous and helped shape our town. As the industry has changed, these train cars could have become relics. Today ...

The caboose was one of the last cars used on the railroad that was originally constructed to tap the forest resources of northern Minnesota and to transport them to the large pulp, paper ...

Construction of a tunnel in the Kenilworth corridor in Minneapolis, shown here in 2022, is one of the main reasons why the $2 ...

Upon its completion in 2014, the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line will reconnect the Twin Cities in a way that has been missing for 60 years. A University of Minnesota student heading to Xcel ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has worked to share the following rail safety tips: • Yield the right-of-way to trains at highway-rail crossings. It's the law. • Never drive around lowering ...

A photographer sets out to walk the Twin Cities’ light rail routes, documenting the cityscapes that the trains traverse and ...

On 1 August 2013, Goldschmidt Thermit Group, the global leader in Thermit welding and services for the repair and maintenance of rail systems for Transits and Main Lines acquired 100% of the shares of ...

A 5 INVESTIGATES review of more than 1,200 fare citations issued on light rail trains reveals more than half of fare evaders ...

On 1 August 2013, Goldschmidt Thermit Group, the global leader in Thermit welding and services for the repair and maintenance of rail systems for Transits and Main Lines acquired 100% of the shares of ...